Galileo Museum

The mainframe computer and multifunction calculator don't hold a candle to this collection's beautifully engraved intricate mechanical instruments. Galileo and his ilk practiced a science that was an art form of the highest aesthetic order. The cases display such beauties as a mechanical calculator from 1664 -- a gleaming bronze sandwich of engraved disks and dials -- and an architect's compass and plumb disguised as a dagger, complete with sheath. In the field of astronomy, the museum has the lens with which Galileo discovered four of the moons of Jupiter (which he promptly and prudently named after his Medici patrons) and, alongside telescopes of all sizes and complexity, a tiny "lady's telescope" made of ivory that once came in a box of beauty products. There's also a somewhat grisly room devoted to medicine, with disturbingly realistic wax models of just about everything that can go wrong during childbirth. And what Italian institution would be complete without a holy relic? In this case, it's the middle finger of Galileo's right hand, swiped while he was en route to reinterment in Santa Croce. He was allowed burial in a Christian church only in the 18th century, after he was posthumously vindicated against the Inquisition for supporting a heliocentric view of the universe.

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Naam : Galileo Museum
Categorieën: Arts & Entertainment > Attractions > Museums
Telefoon: +39 055 265311
Website: http://www.museogalileo.it/en/index.html
E-mail: info@museogalileo.it
Adres:
Giudici Square, 1 - 50122 Florence (Florence), IT
Postcode: 50122
Fax: 055 2653130
Social links: Facebook
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Giudici Square, 1 - 50122 Florence (Florence)

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